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Reform In 1215: Magna Carta And The Fourth Lateran Council, Kenneth Pennington
Reform In 1215: Magna Carta And The Fourth Lateran Council, Kenneth Pennington
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By 1215 King John had lost almost all of his northern continental possessions. The core of the Angevin empire, Normandy, was lost. Anglo-French barons who still held lands in Normandy owed their primary allegiance to King Phillip Augustus, not to King John. The barons and churchmen who remained under his sovereignty chaffed under his rule. It is clear from the document that the barons forced John to sign when they met with John on Runnymede in 15 July 2015, they intended to impose reform on the king. We might sum up their objectives as being the administration of justice and …
Response To Francis Oakley, Kenneth Pennington
Response To Francis Oakley, Kenneth Pennington
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The Ius Commune, Suretyship, And Magna Carta, Kenneth Pennington
The Ius Commune, Suretyship, And Magna Carta, Kenneth Pennington
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Due Process, Community, And The Prince In The Evolution Of The Ordo Iudiciarius, Kenneth Pennington
Due Process, Community, And The Prince In The Evolution Of The Ordo Iudiciarius, Kenneth Pennington
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Learned Law, Droit Savant, Gelehrtes Recht: The Tyranny Of A Concept, Kenneth Pennington
Learned Law, Droit Savant, Gelehrtes Recht: The Tyranny Of A Concept, Kenneth Pennington
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I would like to make several points in this essay. First, the historians of national legal systems are still, by and large, balkanized. They study, explain, and trace the history of their legal systems with only a cursory nod in the direction of the Ius commune. Second, within the Ius commune, some historians still approach a topic as if its various parts can be studied in isolation. A Romanist will study a doctrine of Roman law as if canon and feudal law had only tangential influence on the development of the thought of the civilians.
Dixon’S The Leopard’S Spots: A Study In Popular Racism, Maxwell Bloomfield
Dixon’S The Leopard’S Spots: A Study In Popular Racism, Maxwell Bloomfield
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The first fourteen years of the twentieth century constituted a major reform period in American history. In politics, economics and the arts new ideas and practices emerged to shatter nineteenth-century pre- conceptions. Crusading journalists led the way in calling for a revitalized democracy to bridge the dangerous gulf separating the very rich from the very poor. Increasingly public opinion was directed toward the elimination of class barriers by absorbing laborer and capitalist, immigrant and old-stock native, into an expanded form of democratic state which should minister to the welfare of all.
Yet during these same years, when mass audiences responded …